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Wondering if it is possible in some way to get the site title as a keyword search in Amazon for AE?

For example if I had a site page with the title "chevy malibu" at my domain (say, cars.com or something), how could I get the amazon results to reflect that, automatically? I might have twenty pages at cars.com on different makes and models.

Well, some of what I want to do is going to require lot of pages. I was hoping that there is a way to have the script automatically plant a page's relevant amazon books in a sidebar on a site that I generate based on keywords.

I have a script that pulls RSS feeds based on the page's keyword (and meta keyword), and I just paste the code in, create the page and presto, there's the RSS feed that is relevant - all automatically.

I'd like to know if there's s way to do that with AE, without having to manually post the "keyword=chevrolet+malibu" to the code. Maybe keyword=%keyword%" or something.

If there's a 3rd party utility available to do that, that'd work also.

Make your RSS script write a &lt;script&gt; tag in the output at the location where you want the AE results to show up. Your RSS script would put keywords into the SRC of the &lt;script&gt; tag. For example, your RSS script might output:

You can use a different mode if you want. For example, if you want DVD's instead of books, replace the mode=books with mode=dvd

Your RSS script would have to replace %KW% with the keywords before writing the &lt;script&gt; tag to the output. And when your RSS script does the replacing, it needs to use + instead of spaces, for example, keywords "Tom Hanks" needs to be replaced as "Tom+Hanks" since the Internet standard is to use + instead of spaces in URL's.

The above &lt;script&gt; tag has format=column so that the column format is used, and the pagesize=5 limits the column to 5 results. Since the column format expands to whatever width is available, you'll probably want to put the &lt;script&gt; tag inside a table with a limited width, such as:

Or, rather than using format=column, you could use other formatting such as grid=c:2,r:3 to get a 2-column x 3-row grid. Or, not specify any format/grid and let the results be formatted using the default (i.e.: numbered list with some details). Use can use whatever formatting you want.

I do this throughgout my site using php and mysql. Not that difficult and really makes life very easy. Our site is featured on David's site http://www.c3scripts.com/amazon/index.html as a live example. Its the music site.